EMT11KDL
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This situation shows a minor child who's parents disagree with treatment plans, getting other people involved can help get the child the correct appropriate treatment. In every state I have worked I cannot put someone on a medical hold only law enforcement is allowed to do that in the pre hospital setting.Is there something makes ambulance personnel inherently incapable of making a logical clinical decision? No? Then why "pass the buck" and "let somebody else make it" - isn't that just poor form, pointless and lazy?
If I called the Duty Shift Supervisor or my Territory Manager and asked them, they'd tell me "you are on scene, you are treating the pt, you make the decision!"